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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

They’ve all accepted that this is a new world of capital abundance and that the pistons driving the global economy are technology and network effects. You lose influence as larger investors come into the cap table and start throwing their weight around. You lose way more than you win. You wait the longest for liquidity.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Angels whove made money in technology are preferable,for two reasons: they understand your situation, and theyre asource of contacts and advice. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Now the group is looking for moremoney: they want enough to last for a year, and maybe to hire acouple friends. Whendel.icio.us